The Minority in Parliament is currently holding a Cocoa Farmers and Media Conference at Dadiesoaba in the Ahafo Region.
The confab speakers include the Minority Leader, Dr Cassiel Ato Forson, Asunafo South MP and Ranking Member of the Food and Agric Committee, Eric Opoku as well as the MP for Asutifi South, Collins Dauda.
The well-attended event is expected to lay bare the facts of the issues surrounding the recent increment in cocoa prices.
It will be recalled that President Akufo-Addo on Saturday, announced GH¢1,308 as the new producer price per bag of cocoa at an event in Tepa, in the Ashanti Region.
Speaking at the event, President Akufo-Addo stated that, until recently, international prices of cocoa had remained very low, and made worse by COVID-19.
He added that, despite this, COCOBOD and the government have been taking the very hard decision of increasing the producer price of cocoa.
“Cocoa prices have increased from GH¢7,600 per tonne in 2016, to GH¢12,800 per tonne in 2022, a significant increase of sixty-eight per cent (68%). This has had an adverse impact on COCOBOD’s financial performance,” he said.
However the NDC MPs believe cocoa farmers are worse off under the Akufo-Addo-led government.
The objective of the media conference is to educate our hardworking cocoa farmers of Ghana on the true facts underpinning the announced farm-gate price of cocoa for the 2023/2024 cocoa season and expose the grand deception that the Akufo-Addo/Bawumia/NPP government is meting out to the already impoverished cocoa farmers of our country.
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